The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide
The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide, 2nd edition
byRobert E. Krebs
The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide, Second Edition
By Robert E. Krebs
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2006-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0313334382
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780313334382
Binding: Hardcover
Understanding the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements is critical for success in the chemistry classroom and laboratory. In today's classroom, students not only need to understand the properties of the chemical elements, but how these elements play such an integral role in industry, the earth and the environment, and in modern life. No resource provides a better introduction than Robert Krebs's The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements. In this thoroughly revised edition, with extensive new and updated examples on the use of the chemical elements, the elements are examined within their groups, enabling students to make connections between elements of similar structure. In addition, the discovery and history of each element - from those known from ancient times to those created in the modern laboratory - is explained clearly and concisely. In addition to the handy "Guide to the Chemical Elements" that comprises the bulk of the work, The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements includes other useful features: BLIntroductory material on the basics of chemistry and the Periodic Table BLAppendices on the discoverers of the chemical elements BLA glossary of words commonly used in chemistry and chemical engineering BLA complete bibliography of useful resources, including websites All of this information makes The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements the ideal one-volume resource for understanding the importance of the chemical elements.
Summary: Fulfilled all my needs
Rating: 5
I used it for my project, great book. I reccommednt it for 8th graders or middle schoolers.
Summary: Very Disappointing
Rating: 1
I wanted so much to like this book-- there is such need for a good tome of this sort. Unfortunately this book doesn't satisfy that need. I had hoped it would give much in-depth knowledge of each element. It does not: it is remedial, and, sadly, that in the truest sense. Now, even a remedial book of this sort would be nothing to sneer at, and I would have rated it much, much higher were it not for the fact that, not only does it offer but a smidgeon of information about each element, but that information is badly written (often quite prolix), and worse, replete with the most glaring inaccuracies and downright errors! I found myself scribbling corrections and refutations in the margins, I was so annoyed! One could quote literally dozens -- almost every little element-entry contained one or more flat inaccuracies. The definitions of technical terms alone are so poor I can only surmise the author has but a poor understanding of his subject. And indeed the information he presents seems to be an uneven patchwork of data gleaned from all over, some from old books now quite out of date. (He, for example, writes that Thorium is "like hafnium above it in Group IVA of the periodic chart"-- and that's no longer the case as of the 1940s. He says that Iodine "has no naturally occuring isotopes" -- and his definition of an isotope is an element "with more than the normal neutrons" in its nucleus). He writes that Helium was one of the elements "predicted by the periodic chart" -- totally wrong: far from being predicted by the chart, the discovery of the Noble Gases in toto, from 1895 to 1899, came as a complete surprise to all. In fact, no one had the slightest clue that an entire group of the chart remained to be discovered. I could go on-- and on-- AND ON --- with this litany of error, but why? Better to look for an old copy of Hammond's "Encyclopedia of the Chemical Elements", or Greenwood %26amp; Earnshaw's magisterial "Chemistry of the Elements", than wasting your money on this.
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